Intercolonial

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 47, 21 November 1907, Page 35

Intercolonial

. The Victorian Savings Bank is the largest institution in ttie Commonwealth, the 'deposits ibjeing £13,000,000, representing. 500,000 accounts. At the championship meeting of the Ballarat centre of the Victorian Athletic Association, held at ballarat on November 1, the schools' championship was won by St. Patricks College. The Rev. Motße'r Stanislaus Nolan, who has been in charge of " the Brigidine Convent, Beechworth, died on November 2 at the age of sixty-two, after a lingering illness extending over three years. deceased was exceedingly popular with all denominations. Pauline Gill, formerly a pupil of the Sisters of St. Joseph, Sydney, lias obittainecl first place -in the Intermediate Examination, middle grade, just held in Ireland. She has also obtained honors in French, German, Spanish, chemistry, and English literature. A very successful entertainment in aid of the fund being raised for the benefit of Mrs. Kevin I. O'Doherty, ' E.va ' of the ' Nation,' was given in the Palace Theatre, Sydney, on November 2. Among the performers were Mr. Andrew Mack and "Miss Marie Narelle. The initial .step in the celebrations of the golden jubilee of St. Vincent's Hospital, Darling-hurst, conlducted by the Sisters of. Charity, was taken on November 4, when Solemn High Mass was celebrated in the presence of a large number of The clergy and a-representa-tive gathering of the laity. His imminence Cardinal Moran presided at the throne, and also preached. Miss Amy Castles will not appear in grand opera in Cologne (Germany) during the autumn, as she had formerly arranged. A cable message explains that she has been engaged to sing at Monte Carlo in February. Miss Castles sings this month at St. Petersburg, Dresden, and Vienna, and then returns to London to take up the Harrison tour concerts. Among the many charitable institutions dotting Victoria under Catholic auspices (writes the Melbourne correspondent of the ' Freeman's Journal ') there is none which commands more regard than that of St. Aidan's Orphanage, situated on the finest site around the Golden City of Bendigo. It was erected at a cost of £10,000 from the Dr. BackJbaus estate.'&wd the citizens? provide in part the maintenance. Recently a successful garden fete was held for this purpose, and about £500 was realised. Once more the Catholics of the archdiocese are called upon to mourn the death of a good priest (says the Brisbane ' Age'). The list of those venerated men 'who have worjfed industriously and unselfishly for the good of the Church and her people in Queensland for many years of laborious life, -and - who have been called to their reward .within recent years, has a sadly numerous total. Another has been added to the mournful reckoning. The Key. Patrick Bailey, administrator of the Stanthorpe parish, died at St. Bridget's presbytery, Red Hill, on October Z§. The Rev. Fathers Gibbons, Keenan, McMahon, who arrived by the • Ophir ' on October^3o (says'the c Advocate '), have been temporarily appointed by his Grace the Archbishop of Melbourne as assistant priests at South Yarra, West Melbourne, and Northcote respectively. The following changes in the location of priests have also been made : — For some time past the .Rev. J . J . Egan has been in very indifferent health, and the doctors have recommended a change from the severe strain of a difficult mission like Mansfield.' In consequence, he has been changed to St. Mary's, Williamstown. The Rev. J. J. Cusack has been transferred from) Williamstown to St. Mary's, St. Kilda East'; and the Rev. J. Barry, of St. Kilda East, has been appointed to Mansfield. The death occurred on Sunday, November 3, at Melbourne of the Rev. Father P. O'Flinn, S. J., the oldest priest in Victoria, in Bis "86th year. Father O'Flinn was a native of County Down, Ireland. He entered the Society of Jesus in middle life, prior to which he had bleen a prosperous merchant in Castlewellan, County D-own. He made His novitiale, in Dublin in 1869, being then in Bis 48th" year. He Bad thus spent ,38 years in the religious life. The first Held ol his-Tf dssionary toil was San Francisco, where he spent seven years. So much did he endear himself to all classes of citizens there that even up to his last illness letters were received from His former parishioners of the Californian capital, enquiring after his health.